{"id":7743,"date":"2008-12-30T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T18:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2008-12-30T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T19:30:40","slug":"tough-love-from-amalek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7743","title":{"rendered":"Tough Love From Amalek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaim Amalek emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oritarfa.net\/artwork.html\">The art work is nice.&nbsp; She&#8217;s talented AND pretty.&nbsp; The paintings  signal the world that this is a woman of many charms and talents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But  you, Luke, are a middle aged man living in obscurity on the edge of poverty  whose attentions are not of interest to her.&nbsp; While I get the true (and  non-threatening) sense in which <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7738\">you made that comment<\/a>, you were not  talking to a chum at a college mixer.&nbsp; A man who is well into his forties must  find other ways of expressing his appreciation for a woman&#8217;s physical charms,  especially when he knows they will not be reciprocated.&nbsp; Twink time is over,  unless it is to be directed to women well past menopause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fred emails: &quot;As one who is slightly past his forties, I&#8217;ve reached the point in life where, insofar as the seven deadly sins are concerned, I find that sloth is highly underrated.  I recommend re-prioritizing one&#8217;s vices.  Having said that, it is much more difficult to write a compelling blog in LA about sloth than lust, pride, envy, wrath, avarice or gluttony.  (Of course, being truly slothful, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever get around to writing such a blog.)&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizontalplane.com\/2008\/12\/tattoo-of-the-year\/\">Horizontal Plane reports on a girl with a tattoo of the sh&#8217;ma below her right breast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amir Norman writes: &ldquo;I was doing a documentary for Matisyahu, that was about his experience at Langerado. I was walking around with two rabbis (true story, not some set up for a joke) and as they were walking around blessing anyone who wanted a blessing a girl came up to us. We all started talking and she was like &ldquo;I am a Jew!!! See,&rdquo; revealing the tattoo of the prayer shema, which is one of the holiest prayers in the Jewish religion. I need to take a a picture of this, it had to be documented. I&rsquo;ve shown it to many of my friends, both Jewish and non and to many Rabbis too. Each of them either having a funny comment or thinking it is awesome. One Rabbi told me it was interesting because it says in the shema to hold g-d close to your heart and thats where the tattoo was near and that is what the prayer calls for&hellip;&rdquo; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaim Amalek emails: The art work is nice.&nbsp; She&#8217;s talented AND pretty.&nbsp; The paintings signal the world that this is a woman of many charms and talents. But you, Luke, are a middle aged man living in obscurity on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7743\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,215],"tags":[15122,15124,15123,3164,15125,30680,15121,15120,15126,7933],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaim-amalek","category-orit-arfa","tag-attentions","tag-chum","tag-forties","tag-jewish-religion","tag-langerado","tag-matisyahu","tag-middle-aged-man","tag-physical-charms","tag-shema","tag-tough-love"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7744,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions\/7744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}